Re: Recognizing a WebDAV enabled client

Manfred Baedke wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> what's really bad about programmatic clients and form based 
> authentication is the fact that the form comes with status code 200, 
> telling the client that everything is fine, and there is really no 
> realiable way for the client to tell wether the response body is the 
> intended content or a login form. Form based authentication, as it is 
> widely used nowadays, is broken by design. Don't use it.

ok, but what is the alternative? BASIC and DIGEST also have issues ;-)

Thanks

Michi

>
> Regards,
> Manfred
>
>
>


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Received on Monday, 3 July 2006 14:48:59 UTC